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acupcakeslife's "Recommended Reading for Advanced Placement English Literature"

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This is a partial list of the Advanced Placement English Literature Canon. It does not even begin to cover all the books that are on the offiical list. I’ll update it with new books as I find out about them/read them.

  2. 2.
    The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer
  4. 4.
    Antigone
    by Sophocles
  5. 5.
    Oedipus the King ( Oedipus Rex )
    by E, A Sophocles
  6. 6.
    Medea - Literary Touchstone Classic
    by Euripides
  7. 7.
    Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare
  8. 8.
    The Misanthrope and Tartuffe
    by Moliere
  9. 9.
    Phaedra
    by Jean Racine
  11. 11.
    Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton
  12. 12.
    The Rape of the Lock: An Heroi-comical Poem in Five Cantos
    by Alexander Pope
  13. 13.
    ?
    Gulliver’s Travels
    by Jonathan Swift
  14. 14.
    Candide (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Voltaire
  15. 15.
    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer
  16. 16.
    Crime and Punishment (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  17. 17.
    Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Leo Tolstoy
  18. 18.
    The Cherry Orchard (Methuen Drama)
    by Anton Chekhov
  19. 19.
    The Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway
  20. 20.
    Pope: An Essay On Man
    by Frank Brady
  21. 21.
    An Essay On Criticism
    by Alexander Pope
  22. 22.
    A Doll's House
    by Henrik Ibsen
  23. 23.
    Beowulf (Signet Classics) (Old English Edition)
    by Anonymous
  24. 24.
    The Decameron (Signet Classics)
    by Giovanni Boccaccio
  26. 26.
    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  27. 27.
    King Lear (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare
  28. 28.
    ?
    Goethes Faust
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  29. 29.
    The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  30. 30.
    Jane Eyre.
    by Charlotte Bronte
  31. 31.
    Les Misérables (Signet Classics)
    by Victor Hugo
  32. 32.
    Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Joseph Conrad
  33. 33.
    Secret Sharer
    by Joseph Conrad
  34. 34.
    The Awakening
    by Kate Chopin
  35. 35.
    Dubliners (Oxford World's Classics)
    by James Joyce
  36. 36.
    Desire Under the Elms
    by Eugene O'Neill
  37. 37.
    The Hairy Ape
    by Eugene O\'Neill
  38. 38.
    The Iceman Cometh
    by Eugene O'Neill
  39. 39.
    The Metamorphosis
    by Peter Kuper
  40. 40.
    Trial, The
    by Franz Kafka
  41. 41.
    A Streetcar Named Desire.
    by Tennessee Williams
  42. 42.
    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
    by Tennessee Williams
  43. 43.
    Maggie a Girl of the Streets
    by Stephen Crane
  44. 44.
    The Jungle Books (Signet Classics)
    by Rudyard Kipling
  45. 45.
    Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare
  46. 46.
    THE BEAN TREES
    by Barbara Kingsolver
  47. 47.
    In the Time of the Butterflies
    by Julia Alvarez
  48. 48.
    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan
  49. 49.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner
  50. 50.
    ?
    Tess Of The D'Urbervilles
    by Thomas Hardy
  51. 51.
    Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare
  52. 52.
    A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    by William Shakespeare
  53. 53.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe
  54. 54.
    The Orestia
    by Aeschylus
  55. 55.
    ?
    The Handmaid's Tale

  56. 56.
    Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  57. 57.
    Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  58. 58.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Baldwin
  59. 59.
    Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charlotte Brontë
  60. 60.
    A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
    by James Joyce
  61. 61.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus (Tr. Matthew Ward)
  62. 62.
    Wuthering Heights (Folio Society)
    by Emily Brontë
  63. 63.
    The Death of Ivan Ilych
    by Leo Tolstoy
  64. 64.
    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather
  65. 65.
    One of Ours (Dover Value Editions)
    by Willa Cather
  66. 66.
    Death Comes For The Archbishop
    by Willa Cather
  67. 67.
    The House on Mango Street
    by Sandra Cisneros
  68. 68.
    Lord Jim
    by Joseph Conrad
  69. 69.
    The Red Badge of Courage
    by Stephen Crane
  70. 70.
  71. 71.
    Great Expectations (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  72. 72.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  73. 73.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Oscar Wilde
  74. 74.
    Silas Marner (Enriched Classics (Pocket))
    by George Eliot
  75. 75.
    Middlemarch (Signet Classics)
    by George Eliot
  76. 76.
    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison
  77. 77.
    Tom Jones (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Henry Fielding
  78. 78.
    As I Lay Dying
    by William Faulkner
  79. 79.
    A Thousand Acres: A Novel
    by Jane Smiley
  80. 80.
    Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
    by Anne Tyler
  81. 81.
    Nectar in a Sieve (Signet Classics)
    by Kamala Markandaya
  82. 82.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  83. 83.
    Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert
  84. 84.
  85. 85.
    Jude the Obscure (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Thomas Hardy
  86. 86.
    The Scarlet Letter
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  87. 87.
    Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
    by Joseph Heller
  88. 88.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston
  89. 89.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley
  90. 90.
    The Remains of the Day
    by Kazuo Ishiguro
  92. 92.
    One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey
  93. 93.
    The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
    by Maxine Hong Kingston
  94. 94.
    Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence
  95. 95.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel García Márquez
  96. 96.
    Moby Dick (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Herman Melville
  97. 97.
    Billy Budd, Sailor (Enriched Classics (Simon & Schuster))
    by Herman Melville
  98. 98.
    Death of a Salesman
    by Arthur Miller
  99. 99.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison
  100. 100.
    Song of Solomon
    by Toni Morrison
  101. 101.
    A Bend in the River
    by V.S. Naipaul
  102. 102.
    ?
    The Things They Carried
    by Tim O'Brien
  103. 103.
    Cannery Row: (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck
  104. 104.
    The Bluest Eye
    by Toni Morrison
  105. 105.
    The Fountainhead (Centennial Edition Hardcover)
    by Ayn Rand
  106. 106.
    ?
    Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
    by Tom Stoppard
  107. 107.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain
  108. 108.
    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  109. 109.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker
  110. 110.
    Ethan Frome (Penguin Classics)
    by Edith Wharton
  111. 111.
    Summer
    by Edith Wharton
  112. 112.
    The House of Mirth (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Edith Wharton
  113. 113.
    The Importance of Being Earnest
    by Oscar Wilde
  114. 114.
    ?
    Our Town
    by Thornton Wilder
  115. 115.
    The Glass Menagerie
    by Tennessee Williams
  116. 116.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck
  117. 117.
    To the Lighthouse (1927)
    by Virginia, Woolf
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